we 
HEL 
at the diftance of 17 degrees from the fun § for the other 
planets, zo degrees diftance is wir and for the ftars 
‘More or lefs, as they are greater finaller, See Arcu of 
Vifion. 
-The ancients computed that a ftar, between the tropics, 
would be forty d 
becam: 
every day, it will be’ twenty days 
approaching to it, from the Lielbicut ind of the ftar, and 
thirty days more withdrawing, till the heliacal rifing. 
Some nations of America, and particularly the inhabitants 
of Cay enne, regulate their civil *ear “ the courfe of Sirius, 
beignning it with the heliacal rifing of that ftar. 
To find the Shunanas rifing and fitting by “the globe, fee 
LOBE. 
Hetracat Year. See Caxtcunan and Egyptian YEAR. 
HELIADES, in Mythology, the daughters of the Sun 
and Clymenes, according to the poets : they were fo afflited, 
tany, frou trues, the fun, 
-and 2vSeu%, a flower, becaufe ae bright yellow flowers ex- 
‘pand only in the funfhine. - Tourn. t. 128 ff. 294. 
‘Gertn. t. 76.—This genus, feparated from Ciflus by the 
‘above authors, who are followed, as we underftand, by fome 
ore recent ones, confifts of thofe dwarf f{pecies, generally 
“with yellow flowers, found on ex _ funny hills in various 
arts of Europe, many if not which are remarkable 
mck with the fame 
t is common to fon w ole 
nting themfelves to the light; though this propert 
where it 1s eminently confpicuous, haa ‘been een poetically ¢ on. 
673. (Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. 2237. 
Att. seat Kew. v. 3.243. Jul. 
© Tiaftr. te ee 
Prefer. a. eg t. Ord. " Conipofte pale Linn. 
Stent ko uff. 
Gin Ch. Common = imbricat 
or. compound, 1s 
» th common Bay vent aac 
and depreffed at the bafe, with a five-toothed, acute, fread. chi 
jag limb ; 
thofe of the radius female, hier te cpectnigl 
table world, of 
iyngen-fia i fa 
HEL 
much longer, ligulate, lanceolate, ‘entire.  S/am. (in the 
perfect —— Filaments five, curved, inferted below the 
protube of the pom as Jong asthe tube; anthers 
cyRindéical, “peBulae é 
oblong ; -ityle ices 
ftigma cloven, reflexed 
in sate the germen very ‘imall, with neither oe nor 
eric. none 3 calyx unchanged. Seeds of the per- 
fect 1 haiers folitary, oblong, obtufe, bar ptiige com- 
prefled at the oppofite angles, the inner ones narrower, 
crowned with two lanceolate, acute, reer ares foales the 
igulate florets form no feed. Recept. chafty, large, fmooth, 
its {fcales lanceolate, acute, deciduous, cies of them fepa- 
rating each feed. 
Eff. Ch. Receptacle chaffy, flat, feed-crown a: rot 
leaves. Calyx imbricated, fomewhat fguarrofe 
aia ftately genus confifts, in the laft edition of tiddee: 
fpecies ; Willdenow has 21. 
es are all of American origin ; nor.is w 
been ets to a depoeniaate Ei. indicu 
received it m 
of the Helianthi are - perennial, herbaceous, with lar 
‘ternate, heart-fhaped or ovate, ftalked, oc eve and 
copious, radiant, large, yellow-or reddith, 
H. anauus, the firft that was pages and ne large 
{pecies, tae ferve as a f{pecimen. is native ¢ 
xico ai it greatly attra ed: ike notice . 
of the firft.. 
ind it r of three cells in He/anthemum sbyens ‘um. 
Another = Sai remarked by Gorin 5 is, that 3 fled and it was obtained by the late i. i, ; 
‘are inferted into the valves, w ¢ip y grow on 28% of Heydon, Norfolk, an eminent Encl batatt \ 
the axis, or eae es ‘of the cap: fle Sey ng MOS eeaaneee. that any one has adapts. 0 cr 
 Jeaves a unequal in Helant, n Ciflus, {cheme, and we have-been informed b ed 
aod the habit of the = plants is seit different, See tven the feeds he raifed lay idle in the apartments ¢ F the fo- 
TUS, — ciety. One of the earlieft figures o 
‘Lhis ae might well ih 
ge tale of Clytie, of which we ‘fhall fy more ee 
of the article Hexiorrorium. 
multi iflorucy i in ado. sLsle ftate, .is. the ‘common ‘peren- . 
nial pe aaa of our ag with’ which: all the. partes 
of Paris an in the autum 
Vind. 7a 161, is the 
H. & 
Je sriaice Artichok Key fo call ied, as we spe cr = 
soe bike 
$ aa = yw. a ch as 
at rey icon. 
and have the flavour of ithe real Arti ae ey 
ae th ne Neri and as Mr. oe se erxes in 
